Jessie baked under the tropical sun. She released the last strands of tension in her body with a sigh and closed her eyes.
As much as she wanted to lose herself in the sound of the waves, she couldn't. The gaggle of bikini-clad Barbies giggling behind her destroy the tranquility. If Min Jun, who was stretched out on the lounge chair beside her, didn't look so peaceful, she would have moved down the hotel's private beach to a quieter spot, but scanning the sand from left to right, Jessie wasn't sure such a place existed.
To the left, a mother tried to soothe a crying baby while keeping a couple of toddlers from running after their brothers into the ocean. To the right, Frisbee and volleyball matches kept a large group entertained while hotel staff laid out a noonday luncheon.
